 dbmavenThere's no shortagePremium,Mod
join:1999-10-26
Sty in Sky
kudos:2 | Activation Fee In fairness, the 'activation fee' raises the price to $125/mo. for the first 12 months - not in perpetuity.
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  jmn1207Premium
join:2000-07-19
Ashburn, VA | Re: Activation Fee said by dbmaven:In fairness, the 'activation fee' raises the price to $125/mo. for the first 12 months - not in perpetuity. These prices are quoted as month-to-month and can be changed at any time according to the terms of service. So to be fair, we should probably just add the $300 + installation charge for the total price each month, as we have no idea if Cablevision will charge customers $500 the second month of their service. I jest. 
I did wonder about this statement made by Cablevision: "Due to configuration of available equipment, Static IP customers will experience speed performance limitations."
Are they talking about the 1Mbps over 100? Does anyone know what the limitations might be? | |
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 | patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | Re: Activation Fee being hit with a mbit or 2 of SMTP attempts and windows messenger SPAM? | |
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|  RARPSL
join:1999-12-08
Suffern, NY | said by jmn1207:I did wonder about this statement made by Cablevision: "Due to configuration of available equipment, Static IP customers will experience speed performance limitations." Are they talking about the 1Mbps over 100? Does anyone know what the limitations might be? The routers that they install to support Static IP probably have 100Base-T not 1000Base-T (AKA Gigabit) LAN Ports. You can not pull anywhere near 100Mbs on that speed port due to ethernet overhead (you need Gigabit ports). | |
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|  IgnitePremium,VIP
join:2004-03-18
UK | said by jmn1207:I did wonder about this statement made by Cablevision: "Due to configuration of available equipment, Static IP customers will experience speed performance limitations." Are they talking about the 1Mbps over 100? Does anyone know what the limitations might be? To have a totally static IP over cable requires use of PPP. Probably related to that. | |
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| | RARPSL
join:1999-12-08
Suffern, NY | Re: Activation Fee said by Ignite:said by jmn1207:I did wonder about this statement made by Cablevision: "Due to configuration of available equipment, Static IP customers will experience speed performance limitations." Are they talking about the 1Mbps over 100? Does anyone know what the limitations might be? To have a totally static IP over cable requires use of PPP. Probably related to that. The traffic between the modem and the computer (with the Router in the middle) is done via Ethernet. If you have a 100Base-T connection, that means that the speed of the flow is 100Mbs OF ETHERNET PACKETS. Each Ethernet Packet has an overhead of 42bytes. Thus if the packet holds a 1500 Byte TCP/IP packet as its payload, this means that 1542 bytes must be transmitted. When you say that you are getting 100Mbs this is measured in TCP/IP Packets (or 12,000 bits per packet). Thus there is a 2.75% overhead due to the use of Ethernet. To get a TCP/IP 100Mbs speed, you need a Gigabit 1000Base-T connection to be able to deliver 100Mbs after the Ethernet Overhead has been removed - Otherwise you are only getting 97.25Mbs. | |
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 BitPremium
join:2009-02-19
00000 | Then let them charge $125 instead of being able to advertise $99 and then have the real price buried in the fine print.
It's just a junk fee X 100. | |
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| | said by dbmaven:In fairness, the 'activation fee' raises the price to $125/mo. for the first 12 months - not in perpetuity. So what? Like that is a bonus? Come on.... Greed, greed, greed... Yikes... | |
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| Rojo
join:2009-04-14
New York, NY | Re: Activation Fee It's not a fee, it's a feature | |
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| | | | Re: Activation Fee said by Rojo:It's not a fee, it's a feature LOL. | |
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